{"id":5475,"date":"2026-09-16T12:14:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T12:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsofbali.com\/?p=5475"},"modified":"2026-09-16T12:15:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T12:15:01","slug":"lotus-in-balinese-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsofbali.com\/fr\/lotus-in-balinese-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus in Balinese Art: Padma, Padmasana, and the Nine Gods"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"aob-custom-article\">\n\n<div class=\"definition-box\">\n  <p>Lotus in Balinese art, called padma in Sanskrit and Kawi, is far more than a decorative flower: it lends its name to Bali&#8217;s holiest shrine, sits at the center of a nine-god cosmological diagram, and shows up in the colors of offerings laid out across the island every single day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"highlight-inline\">\n  <p><strong>Key Takeaways<\/strong><\/p>\n  <ul class=\"quality-list\">\n    <li>Padmasana, the tallest and holiest shrine in a Balinese temple, means &#8220;lotus throne&#8221; and was introduced to Bali in the 16th century by the priest Dang Hyang Nirartha.<\/li>\n    <li>The lotus also names Padma Bhuwana, a nine-god cosmological diagram (Dewata Nawa Sanga) with Shiva at its center, holding a lotus as his own attribute.<\/li>\n    <li>The same god-direction-color scheme behind Padma Bhuwana reappears in the flower colors placed on canang sari, the small offerings seen on Balinese streets and doorsteps daily.<\/li>\n    <li>Across wider Hindu and Buddhist art, the lotus throne is the standard seat for divine figures, from the Buddha to Lakshmi, Brahma, and Vishnu.<\/li>\n    <li>Not every lotus pond painted in a Bali gallery is rooted in this tradition. Koi fish and the number nine are Chinese and Japanese Feng Shui symbols of fortune, a different and more recent decorative tradition layered onto Balinese-made art for the villa and corporate market.<\/li>\n    <li>Arts of Bali&#8217;s Nine Koi Harmony palette painting combines both: genuine lotus (padma) blooms rendered in thick impasto, alongside koi fish that belong to that newer, imported symbolism.<\/li>\n  <\/ul>\n  <p><em><strong>Definition:<\/strong> The lotus (padma) in Balinese art is a flower symbol of purity and divine presence, most visibly expressed in the padmasana shrine, the empty lotus throne built to honor Bali&#8217;s supreme god.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Every Balinese temple has one shrine taller and plainer than the rest: an empty stone seat, roofless, facing the mountain, with nothing sitting on it. Ask what it&#8217;s called and the answer is padmasana, lotus throne. The name is not a metaphor added later. It comes directly from padma, the lotus, and it points to a flower that shows up across Balinese Hindu art far more often, and far more seriously, than its size would suggest.<\/p>\n\n<p>This guide goes deeper into the lotus than the short entry in our <a href=\"\/fr\/balinese-art-symbols\/\">Balinese Art Symbols glossary<\/a>, which covers ten recurring figures in a few lines each. Here the focus is just the lotus: where the padmasana shrine comes from, the nine-god diagram named after it, and why a koi and lotus pond painting hanging in a Seminyak gallery draws on two very different traditions at once, not one.<\/p>\n\n<!-- IMAGE HERO | product id 5441 \"Nine Koi Harmony: Abundance in Lotus Pond Palette Painting\", media id 5433, Rp5,000,000, 60x90cm. Portrait 1600x2132, confirmed live via browser. -->\n<div class=\"img-block portrait\">\n  <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\"\n    src=\"https:\/\/artsofbali.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Nine-Koi-Harmony-Abundance-in-Lotus-Pond-Palette-Painting.webp\"\n    alt=\"Palette knife painting of koi fish and white lotus flowers in a pond, lotus in Balinese art, Arts of Bali gallery\"\n    title=\"Nine Koi Harmony: Abundance in Lotus Pond Palette Painting, Arts of Bali\"\n    loading=\"eager\"\n    width=\"1600\"\n    height=\"2132\">\n  <div class=\"img-meta\">\n    <p class=\"caption\">Nine Koi Harmony: Abundance in Lotus Pond, palette knife on marsoto canvas, 60&#215;90cm, Rp5,000,000. Lotus blooms and lily pads sit among painted koi fish. <a href=\"https:\/\/artsofbali.com\/fr\/galerie\/nine-koi-harmony-abundance-in-lotus-pond-palette-painting\/\" title=\"Nine Koi Harmony product page\">View this piece &amp; price<\/a><\/p>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<span class=\"section-label\">Symbolism<\/span>\n<h2 class=\"section-h2\">Lotus in Balinese Art: What the Flower Really Means<\/h2>\n\n<p>The lotus grows rooted in mud, underwater, then rises to bloom clean above the surface without a trace of the dirt it grew from. That single fact is the entire basis of its symbolism across Hindu and Buddhist art: purity and spiritual awakening reached in spite of, not apart from, difficult conditions. In Balinese Hindu belief, the flower is read the same way at the individual level, the idea that anyone carries the capacity to bloom clean out of their own mud.<\/p>\n\n<p>Across the wider Hindu and Buddhist world, the lotus throne, padmasana or padmapitha in Sanskrit, is the standard pedestal for divine figures. The Buddha is shown seated on one. So are Lakshmi, Brahma, Vishnu, and Krishna in Hindu art, and Guanyin and Avalokitesvara further east. Bali did not invent this convention, it inherited it, then built its single most important shrine around the idea.<\/p>\n\n<span class=\"section-label\">Sacred Architecture<\/span>\n<h2 class=\"section-h2\">Padmasana: Bali&#8217;s Holiest Shrine Is Named After a Flower<\/h2>\n\n<p>The padmasana is the tallest, plainest, and most sacred shrine inside a Balinese temple compound. Its throne is deliberately empty, no statue, no housed figure, because the supreme god of Balinese Hinduism, Sang Hyang Widhi Wasa (also called Acintya, &#8220;that which cannot be thought&#8221;), is considered formless and beyond representation. The shrine is roofless by design too, keeping an unobstructed line between worshippers and the sky.<\/p>\n\n<p>The structure is built in three parts: tepas (base), batur (body), and sancak (top), where the empty throne sits, sometimes backed by a golden Acintya figure or a solar swastika. At the base, most padmasana shrines rest on Bedawang Nala, a cosmic turtle, wrapped by two nagas, Basuki and Anantaboga, whose coiled bodies are said to hold the turtle, and by extension the world, steady. Within the temple compound, the padmasana always sits in the kaja-kangin corner, the point closest to Gunung Agung, Bali&#8217;s most sacred mountain.<\/p>\n\n<span class=\"section-label\">L'histoire<\/span>\n<h3 class=\"section-h3\">The Priest Who Brought the Lotus Throne to Bali<\/h3>\n\n<p>The padmasana was not always part of Balinese temple design. It arrived with one specific person: Dang Hyang Nirartha, a Hindu priest of the Shaiva sect born in 15th century Daha, in the Majapahit kingdom on Java. Oral tradition places his arrival in Bali around 1492, during the reign of King Waturenggong, and a manuscript colophon confirms he was still active in 1537. As he traveled the island&#8217;s coastal temples, he introduced the padmasana shrine at temple after temple, reshaping Balinese temple architecture as he went, and became regarded as the ancestor of Bali&#8217;s Shaivite priesthood. He is honored today at Uluwatu Temple, where tradition holds he died in moksha, spiritual liberation, in the mid-16th century.<\/p>\n\n<!-- IMAGE ANGLE | same product id 5441, media id 5430, koi-2.webp, portrait 1600x2132, confirmed live via browser. -->\n<div class=\"img-block portrait\">\n  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\n    src=\"https:\/\/artsofbali.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/koi-2.webp\"\n    alt=\"Angled view of a koi and lotus pond painting showing canvas edge and thick palette knife texture\"\n    title=\"Nine Koi Harmony, canvas detail, Arts of Bali\"\n    width=\"1600\"\n    height=\"2132\">\n  <div class=\"img-meta\">\n    <p class=\"caption\">Marsoto canvas edge and raised palette knife texture, visible in the lotus leaves and koi bodies.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<span class=\"section-label\">Cosmology<\/span>\n<h2 class=\"section-h2\">Padma Bhuwana: The Lotus That Holds Nine Gods<\/h2>\n\n<p>The lotus is not only a shrine name, it is also a diagram. Balinese Hinduism arranges nine guardian deities, the Dewata Nawa Sanga, around the eight cardinal and intercardinal directions plus the center, in a layout known as Padma Bhuwana, &#8220;the universal lotus.&#8221; Each god carries a direction, a color, a weapon, and a mount, and Shiva sits at the center of the arrangement, holding a lotus, padma, as his own attribute. The center of the flower and the center of the compass are the same point.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"table-wrap comparison-table\">\n<table>\n  <thead>\n    <tr>\n      <th>Direction<\/th>\n      <th>God<\/th>\n      <th>Color<\/th>\n      <th>Weapon<\/th>\n      <th>Mount<\/th>\n    <\/tr>\n  <\/thead>\n  <tbody>\n    <tr><td>East<\/td><td>Iswara<\/td><td>Blanc<\/td><td>Bell (wajra)<\/td><td>Elephant<\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td>Southeast<\/td><td>Maheswara<\/td><td>Pink<\/td><td>Incense (dhupa)<\/td><td>Tiger<\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td>South<\/td><td>Brahma<\/td><td>Red<\/td><td>Mace (gada)<\/td><td>Swan<\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td>Southwest<\/td><td>Rudra<\/td><td>Orange<\/td><td>Club (mosala)<\/td><td>Buffalo<\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td>West<\/td><td>Mahadeva<\/td><td>Yellow<\/td><td>Serpent arrow (nagapasa)<\/td><td>Serpent<\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td>Northwest<\/td><td>Sangkara<\/td><td>Green<\/td><td>Fiery arrow (angkusa)<\/td><td>Lion<\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td>North<\/td><td>Vishnu<\/td><td>Noir<\/td><td>Disc (cakra)<\/td><td>Garuda<\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td>Northeast<\/td><td>Sambhu<\/td><td>Bleu<\/td><td>Trident (trisula)<\/td><td>Wilmana<\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td>Center<\/td><td>Shiva<\/td><td>Five colors<\/td><td>Lotus (padma)<\/td><td>Bull<\/td><\/tr>\n  <\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"table-note\">Shiva at the center reflects the Shaivite foundation of Balinese Hinduism, the same tradition Dang Hyang Nirartha reinforced when he introduced the padmasana shrine.<\/p>\n\n<p>Saraswati, goddess of knowledge and the arts, is one of the deities most often shown seated among lotus blooms in Balinese and wider Hindu painting. Arts of Bali&#8217;s own <a href=\"\/fr\/saraswati-day-bali\/\">guide to Saraswati Day<\/a> covers her role in more depth; here, the lotus around her is the same flower discussed throughout this piece, purity and spiritual awakening, rendered as her seat and setting rather than as a standalone subject.<\/p>\n\n<span class=\"section-label\">Everyday Ritual<\/span>\n<h2 class=\"section-h2\">The Same Colors, Every Day: Lotus Cosmology in Canang Sari<\/h2>\n\n<p>The Padma Bhuwana color scheme is not locked away in temple diagrams. It reappears in canang sari, the small palm-leaf offerings placed on doorsteps, dashboards, and shop counters across Bali every morning. White flowers point east for Iswara, red flowers point south for Brahma, yellow flowers point west for Mahadeva, and blue or green flowers point north for Vishnu, matching the same direction-color pairing that defines the nine-god lotus diagram. A visitor who has never heard the word padmasana has still, in all likelihood, walked past this cosmology laid out in flowers on a Bali sidewalk.<\/p>\n\n<span class=\"section-label\">Honest Distinction<\/span>\n<h2 class=\"section-h2\">Not Every Lotus Pond in a Bali Gallery Is Traditional Iconography<\/h2>\n\n<p>The painting illustrating this article, Nine Koi Harmony, pairs real lotus blooms with koi fish, and it&#8217;s worth being direct about which half of that pairing is which. The lotus flowers are genuinely part of the tradition described above, padma, purity, the flower behind Padmasana and Padma Bhuwana. The koi fish are not. Koi are a Japanese ornamental carp breed, and the specific combination of nine koi swimming together draws on Chinese Feng Shui symbolism, where nine is a number of abundance and koi represent fortune and prosperity in the home.<\/p>\n\n<p>That symbolism has nothing to do with Balinese Hindu cosmology. It&#8217;s a separate, more recent decorative tradition that has become common in contemporary art made for villas, hotels, and corporate spaces across Bali, including work produced by artists working in Bali for exactly that market. Arts of Bali&#8217;s own product description for this piece names the Feng Shui association directly. Being clear about that distinction here is more useful to a collector than pretending the koi are something they&#8217;re not.<\/p>\n\n<span class=\"section-label\">The Piece<\/span>\n<h2 class=\"section-h2\">The Painting: Nine Koi Harmony in a Lotus Pond<\/h2>\n\n<p>Nine Koi Harmony: Abundance in Lotus Pond is an original palette knife painting on marsoto canvas, 60&#215;90cm, built up in thick impasto strokes rather than flat brushwork. Nine koi in red, orange, black, and white circle a pond floored with smooth river pebbles, while two lotus blooms and their lily pads sit in the lower left of the composition, rendered with the same raised, textured technique as the fish themselves. The lotus flowers anchor the piece in genuine Balinese botanical and artistic subject matter even as the koi carry their own separate meaning.<\/p>\n\n<!-- IMAGE DETAIL | same product id 5441, media id 5431, koi-3.webp, portrait 1920x2560, confirmed live via browser. -->\n<div class=\"img-block portrait\">\n  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\n    src=\"https:\/\/artsofbali.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/koi-3.webp\"\n    alt=\"Close-up detail of a white lotus flower and koi fish scales painted with thick palette knife strokes\"\n    title=\"Nine Koi Harmony, lotus and koi detail, Arts of Bali\"\n    width=\"1920\"\n    height=\"2560\">\n  <div class=\"img-meta\">\n    <p class=\"caption\">Close-up detail: lotus petals and lily pads rendered beside the painted koi, showing the raised palette knife texture.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"cta-block\">\n  <p>See Nine Koi Harmony in person at Arts of Bali, Seminyak, or message us for current price and availability.<\/p>\n  <a class=\"cta-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/wa.me\/6285237454011\" title=\"Chat with Arts of Bali on WhatsApp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Discuter sur WhatsApp<\/a>\n  <a class=\"cta-btn outline\" href=\"https:\/\/artsofbali.com\/fr\/galerie\/nine-koi-harmony-abundance-in-lotus-pond-palette-painting\/\" title=\"View Nine Koi Harmony product page\">View This Piece<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n<span class=\"section-label\">FAQ<\/span>\n<h2 class=\"section-h2\">Questions fr\u00e9quemment pos\u00e9es<\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"faq-section\">\n  <details class=\"faq-item\">\n    <summary class=\"faq-question\">What does the lotus mean in Balinese art?<\/summary>\n    <p class=\"faq-answer\">The lotus, padma, symbolizes purity and spiritual awakening because it grows rooted in mud yet blooms clean above the water. It names Bali&#8217;s holiest shrine, the padmasana, and sits at the center of the nine-god Padma Bhuwana diagram, making it one of the most structurally important symbols in Balinese Hindu art.<\/p>\n  <\/details>\n  <details class=\"faq-item\">\n    <summary class=\"faq-question\">Why is Bali&#8217;s holiest shrine called Padmasana?<\/summary>\n    <p class=\"faq-answer\">Padmasana means &#8220;lotus throne.&#8221; It is an empty stone seat built to honor Sang Hyang Widhi Wasa, the formless supreme god of Balinese Hinduism, and it takes its name directly from padma, the lotus, since the throne itself is conceived as a lotus seat for a god beyond physical representation.<\/p>\n  <\/details>\n  <details class=\"faq-item\">\n    <summary class=\"faq-question\">Who introduced the padmasana shrine to Bali?<\/summary>\n    <p class=\"faq-answer\">Dang Hyang Nirartha, a Shaivite priest from Majapahit-era Java, introduced the padmasana to Bali around the late 15th to 16th century. He built the shrine at coastal temples across the island during his travels and is regarded as the ancestor of Bali&#8217;s Shaivite priesthood, honored today at Uluwatu Temple.<\/p>\n  <\/details>\n  <details class=\"faq-item\">\n    <summary class=\"faq-question\">What is Padma Bhuwana?<\/summary>\n    <p class=\"faq-answer\">Padma Bhuwana, &#8220;the universal lotus,&#8221; is the cosmological diagram behind Dewata Nawa Sanga, Bali&#8217;s nine guardian deities. Each god occupies a direction, color, weapon, and mount around the compass, with Shiva at the center holding a lotus, reflecting the Shaivite foundation of Balinese Hinduism.<\/p>\n  <\/details>\n  <details class=\"faq-item\">\n    <summary class=\"faq-question\">Which gods sit in the Padma Bhuwana lotus diagram?<\/summary>\n    <p class=\"faq-answer\">Nine gods: Iswara (east), Maheswara (southeast), Brahma (south), Rudra (southwest), Mahadeva (west), Sangkara (northwest), Vishnu (north), Sambhu (northeast), and Shiva at the center. Each carries a distinct color and weapon, a scheme that also reappears in the directional flower colors of canang sari offerings.<\/p>\n  <\/details>\n  <details class=\"faq-item\">\n    <summary class=\"faq-question\">Is the lotus a Hindu or a Buddhist symbol?<\/summary>\n    <p class=\"faq-answer\">Both. The lotus throne is the standard seat for divine figures across Hindu and Buddhist art alike, from the Buddha to Lakshmi, Brahma, and Vishnu. Balinese Hinduism inherited this shared convention and built its most important shrine, the padmasana, directly around it.<\/p>\n  <\/details>\n  <details class=\"faq-item\">\n    <summary class=\"faq-question\">Are koi fish part of traditional Balinese art?<\/summary>\n    <p class=\"faq-answer\">No. Koi fish and the number nine come from Chinese and Japanese Feng Shui symbolism, where they represent fortune and abundance. That tradition is separate from Balinese Hindu lotus symbolism, though the two are often combined in contemporary paintings made in Bali for the villa and corporate decor market.<\/p>\n  <\/details>\n  <details class=\"faq-item\">\n    <summary class=\"faq-question\">Where can I see a lotus and koi pond painting like this?<\/summary>\n    <p class=\"faq-answer\">Arts of Bali carries an original palette knife painting, Nine Koi Harmony: Abundance in Lotus Pond, on marsoto canvas at 60\u00d790cm. 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Each god occupies a direction, color, weapon, and mount around the compass, with Shiva at the center holding a lotus, reflecting the Shaivite foundation of Balinese Hinduism.\"\n                    }\n                },\n                {\n                    \"@type\": \"Question\",\n                    \"name\": \"Which gods sit in the Padma Bhuwana lotus diagram?\",\n                    \"acceptedAnswer\": {\n                        \"@type\": \"Answer\",\n                        \"text\": \"Nine gods: Iswara (east), Maheswara (southeast), Brahma (south), Rudra (southwest), Mahadeva (west), Sangkara (northwest), Vishnu (north), Sambhu (northeast), and Shiva at the center. Each carries a distinct color and weapon, a scheme that also reappears in the directional flower colors of canang sari offerings.\"\n                    }\n                },\n                {\n                    \"@type\": \"Question\",\n                    \"name\": \"Is the lotus a Hindu or a Buddhist symbol?\",\n                    \"acceptedAnswer\": {\n                        \"@type\": \"Answer\",\n                        \"text\": \"Both. The lotus throne is the standard seat for divine figures across Hindu and Buddhist art alike, from the Buddha to Lakshmi, Brahma, and Vishnu. Balinese Hinduism inherited this shared convention and built its most important shrine, the padmasana, directly around it.\"\n                    }\n                },\n                {\n                    \"@type\": \"Question\",\n                    \"name\": \"Are koi fish part of traditional Balinese art?\",\n                    \"acceptedAnswer\": {\n                        \"@type\": \"Answer\",\n                        \"text\": \"No. Koi fish and the number nine come from Chinese and Japanese Feng Shui symbolism, where they represent fortune and abundance. 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